Aussie music fans and artists alike have been clamouring for more music programming on television for years, and while the return of popular ABC music quiz show Spicks And Specks has sated some demand, there’s alway room for more.

Now the TV powers that be have seen fit to answer the prayers of both those that have been starving for a brand new music television show, and the many acolytes of Today Show host Karl Stefanovic demanding the Gold Logie-winning rascal get his own show – all in one fell swoop.

Now Aussie screens are being gifted with a new music-based program this weekend fronted by none other than the meme-generating, mid-morning rascal himself, as News Ltd reports.

“They’ve given me my own music show,” says the 39-year-old presenter in an Instagram teaser announcing the new music show. “It’s called Hargrave Lane and you just don’t know what’s going to happen… because I don’t!” “They’ve given me my own music show… and you just don’t know what’s going to happen… because I don’t.”

Further feigning the same disbelief in a teaser trailer for the new series, Stefanovic goads Kings Of Leon frontman Caleb Followill into writing a song ‘on the spot’. The Nashville arena rockers, along with UK pop band Little Mix, are Stefanovic’s inaugural guests in the debut episode of Hargrave Lane, premiering 4pm AEST on Channel Nine’s digital station GO! this Saturday 26th April.

Other future guests are likely to include Aussie roots hero John Butler, as Stefanovic’s Instagram account revealed. “Getting my Friday freak on with this living legend @johnbutlertrio let’s go people.” he wrote.

If you don’t quite understand why throwing Stefanovic in front of some of music’s biggest names and watching the hilarious results isn’t a genius idea, then you’re probably not wise to his many subversive turns in his duties co-hosting Nine’s Today Show since 2005 that have made him an internet sensation.

Just give him a quick YouTube search (or hit Pedestrian.TV) for some of the media personality’s more memorable moments, like sharing ‘gags’ with the Dalai Lama and surfing bros, consistently pranking his fellow co-presenters, getting tweet-cred with Grimes, or his many and varied weed puns. You’ll soon be a convert.

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